Taira (spider)

Taira is a genus of East Asian tangled nest spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Taira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Taira
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
T. flavidorsalis (Yaginuma, 1964)
Species

11, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Taira cangshan Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
  • Taira concava Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
  • Taira decorata (Yin & Bao, 2001) — China
  • Taira flavidorsalis (Yaginuma, 1964) — Japan
  • Taira latilabiata Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
  • Taira liboensis Zhu, Chen & Zhang, 2004 — China
  • Taira obtusa Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
  • Taira qiuae Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China
  • Taira sichuanensis Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China
  • Taira sulciformis Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2008 — China
  • Taira zhui Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 — China

References

  1. "Gen. Taira Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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